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games done quick right now is fascinating - the runner is explaining the history and design of the bingo run structure of OOTPermalink Look on archive.org
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they did fixed runs, then someone made an irc bot to give random challenges (with a challenge would come up, then everyone would run at the same time - this was pre-streaming days). that was fun, but people kept rerolling the challenges & it was a pain in the arse.Permalink Look on archive.org
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so they made a 7x7 grid & one challenge would get picked. but then someone who hated the randomness just started memorising all 49 routes...Permalink Look on archive.org
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so then they invented the bingo format, with a 5x5 grid of challenges - each run has to all the challenges on a row or a column. the first version was entirely random - but sometimes one row/column would be just way easier.Look on archive.org
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so they started weighting difficulty of different challenges, then using magic squares to distribute the challenges. and now the modern bingo backend takes into account that some synergise better with others, to try to create a balanced board of interesting challenges.Permalink Look on archive.org
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now they scrape the data that runners put up, to extract analytics about what challenges people run for. and there's loads of friendly ribbing about "dirty blankers" who don't put up their metadata for runs.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the current runner has been in the community for 12 years - he's old school enough his handle is "runner guy" (people calling him RG). he's the one making the spreadsheets of challenges for balancing purposes. some of the dudes on the couch are dirty blankers.Permalink Look on archive.org
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so fascinating - the iterative interplay between game design, community practices, the text of the game, learnings about runs & skips & tricks...Permalink Look on archive.org
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here's the bingo card tool on speed runs live, which is the hub for this community: speedrunslive.com/tools/oot-bingo/?seed=986260Permalink Look on archive.org